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Holden Beach could be on the receiving end of extra sand as a byproduct of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in the Lockwood Folly Inlet area. The corps will be dredging at the intersection of the Lockwood Folly River and Intracoastal Waterway within the next couple of months and placing the beach-quality… Read More
A major dredging operation on the River Tay will be a “game changer” for Perth Harbour, bosses have claimed. The £870,000 project which is expected to get under way this summer will unlock the port to larger vessels. The harbour’s future was thrown into doubt last year when it lost its biggest customer, animal feed… Read More
Dredging works at port Sabetta are to be completed by the end of 2017, IAA PortNews correspondent cites Vitaly Sknarin, Sabetta Project Coordinator, USK NOST JSC, as saying at the 4th International Forum of Dredging Companies held in Moscow on 15 February 2017. USK MOST OJSC functions as the General Contractor for constructing transport infrastructure… Read More
Bulldozers will begin rumbling onto the beach in late May as widening projects in three towns get under way. Visitors and residents can expect 1,000-foot stretches at a time to be closed through September as dredges pump sand from offshore onto the beaches in Duck, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills and possibly Southern Shores. In… Read More
CYNICISM surrounds Ports North’s request for a six-month extension to perform further wet season studies in its Cairns Port dredging environmental impact study. The Cairns Post yesterday revealed the study’s due date had been stretched out to December 31 with minimal public notification. Cairns and Far North Environment Centre president Denis Walls said the cause… Read More
After nearly two years of meetings with experts in the fishing industry, environmental scientists and engineers, elected officials and business owners along the four coastal counties, and two public dredging forums and a collection of White Papers prepared by the Dredging Working Group, their efforts took a step forward Jan. 30, when Senate Bill No…. Read More
Work on the $1.5 million Green Lake dredging project could be getting under way as early as next week. A surveying crew took to the “Duck Pond” in a small boat on Tuesday (Feb. 14), but only as far into the eastern forebay — off Attleboro Road — as they could without running aground in… Read More
A dredging project on the southside of St. John’s harbour has been temporarily suspended after some bones were brought up from the bottom of the harbour this week. The bones, including what was described as a leg bone, are now with the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office for identification. The RNC is awaiting the results to… Read More
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has issued a ruling in a long-running dispute between environmentalists and Los Angeles County over a plan to dig out decades of accumulated sediment behind a critical flood control dam. Judge James Chalfant ruled Tuesday afternoon that county officials could excavate 2.4 million cubic yards of dirt in the… Read More
HCM City will undertake 14 projects to prevent erosion, including dredging of vulnerable waterways, at a cost of over VND1.7 trillion (US$75 million) this year, according to its Inland Waterway Management Division. They include a four-kilometre embankment in segment 3 of the Binh Quoi-Cay Bang-Chua Channel in the Thanh Da Peninsula at a cost of… Read More
With the onset of the rainy season in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, the provincial office of the Department of Environment has launched measures to dredge and unblock Hamoun Wetlands’ tributaries. Many water streams flowing into the Hamouns are obstructed by sediments remaining from past floods, IRNA reported. The Hamouns are trans-boundary wetlands on Iran-Afghanistan border and constitute… Read More
Two of the South Island’s largest organisations are at odds over a planned dredging operation in Lyttelton Harbour. Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) has applied to expand its shipping channel, allowing larger ships to enter the port. The channel expansion would cost up to $120 million and was part of the port’s $1 billion redevelopment…. Read More
Dredging needs had nothing to do with the Ben-my-Chree crash, if it was unsafe, the master wouldn’t have chosen to dock. That’s the insistence of director of Ports Ann Reynolds – answers will come once the investigatory report by expert divers is released. That’ll determine if damage to both the Ben and the King Edward… Read More
In 2017, maintenance dredging operations are planned in the Big port Saint-Petersburg at a volume of 152,000 cubic meters and in the Ust-Luga port at 80,000 cubic meters, the Russian sea port agency reports. The projects envisage maintenance dredging to ensure safe navigation and maintain nameplate dimensions of the water areas, approach channels and fairways… Read More
A geothermal expert has refuted claims by an Ohinemutu resident that the lack of dredging in the Ruapeka lagoon could be connected to heightened geothermal activity in the area. Lani Kereopa witnessed another eruption in Lake Rotorua on Sunday morning describing it as a lot wider than the previous three eruptions and that it looked… Read More